Hawk Nature-Spirit of Muisca
Among the Muisca people of the Colombian highlands, the Hawk Nature-Spirit is a sacred guardian associated with the cold, windswept altiplano of the Eastern Cordillera and its sacred lakes, particularly Lake Guatavita. The Muisca civilization, famous for the legend of El Dorado, maintained a complex cosmology in which birds of prey played crucial roles as messengers of the gods and guardians of the natural order. The Hawk Nature-Spirit was believed to control the winds that sweep across the high plateau and to serve as an intermediary between the Muisca priests (jeques) and the supreme god Chi